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After founding Mornington's eminent Moorooduc Estate and decades crafting the most memorable vintages for Mornington's leading brands, Richard McIntyre established a tiny, single hectare vineyard, on a prominent, high elevation site at Arthur's Seat, with a view to producing limited yields of the most exquisite small batch wines. The techniques of choice are wild yeast ferments, minimal intervention and good French oak, with a nod to traditional Burgundian practices, which allow the wines to speak of provenance, express their specificity of clone and articulate their sense of place. There's not much Bellingham made but every bottle passes through the hands of a team member who has been involved with the vintage since pruning and budburst. An essential inclusion for small batch Pinotphiles in the know, there has never been a more limited release of a marvelous Mornington.. Limited editions by the master of moorooduc»
Established 1853 by George Friedrich Schmidt, who acquired eighteen choice hectares of viticulture at Tanunda along Siegersdorf Road, for the peppercorn price of a pound per acre, Haan endures as one of the Barossa's quietly achieving, arcane old vineyards. Distinguished in the 21st century by a streak of prestigious industry accolades, Australian Wine Producer of Year, Gold Medal and Trophy for Best Blended Red at the illustrious London International Wine & Spirit Competition. Much of Haan's modest production is always retained by the softly spoken estate's most ardent enthusiasts. Shrewd aspirants will also seize the opportunity to retain a case or two of the heirloom vineyard's most recent vintage. A graceful style of opaque fruit characters, savoury and brooding, inebriating for its redolence of Barossa earth, mesmerising for its intricacy, dressed in a veil of refined,.. Tanunda tradition»

Zilzie Wrattonbully Merlot 2011 CONFIRM 2011 VINTAGE

Zilzie Wrattonbully Merlot 2011 - Buy
Merlot Wrattonbully South Australia
Zilzie are one of the few Mildura estates that can call on an agenda of excellent vineyards in the splendid red wine precincts of Wrattonbully. Zilzie know from good Merlot, having supplied and worked with many of the nation's most esteemed labels. Wrattonbully's long growing season and cool ripening conditions are best known for producing soft, rich and fruit driven Merlot wines. Zilzie have access to the best, the challenge is to craft a Merlot of such a quality and style while keeping it appealing and immediately approachable to modern palates.
With climates and soil very akin to neighbouring Coonawarra, Wrattonbully is yielding some of the finest Merlot anywhere in Australia. When the Zilzie team make wine, they know that they are working with some of the best Merlot grapes in the country. Choice harvests from the best vineyards are treated to a cold soak for the extraction of colour and tannins. A small percentage remains on skins for an extended maceration to improve palate structure. Following the vinification, batches are transferred to a selection of new and seasoned French oak barriques for up to a year's maturation before being assembled into the finished wine.
Mid crimson red with purple hues. Great vibrancy on the bouquet, showing mocha, plums and ripe cherry fruit with charry vanillin oak characters. Red berries on the palate, layers of mulberry and cherries over a structure of supple tannins. A deeply flavoured, generous wine offering ample red berry fruit enriched by charry oak and a lingering kick of spice. Pair off with a rosemary sprigged rack of lamb.
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